Just a little light reading on a work night… I’m reading “The Book” by Douglas C. McMurtrie.
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Iconic images reimagined in embroidery and jelly beans, as seen at the state fair.
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Fancy book butts!
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Edge decoration and marbled endpapers on an 18th century French binding.
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More paste paper found on one of our library books. Red, black, and gold paint that’s still shiny!
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Somebody on my campus is a ceramist with a sense of humor. They made a vase to fill an empty niche where a pay phone once lived.
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This book was the victim of both a bookworm and a librarian, who put cellophane tape over the bookworm’s holes many years ago.
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Really digging the typography on this book’s cover. That intertwining C and S!
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Is occult sciences something they still offer in library school these days? Always wanted to take that class but I couldn’t fit it in with all my conservation classes.
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German paste-paper appreciation post. All of these books were found in my library’s circulating stacks, by the way. I just went down the rows and pulled out the ones that caught my eye, photographed them, and released them back into the wild! 🙂